Bbc Two Winter Highlights 2005 Bbc Two Winter Highlights 2005

BBC TWO WINTER HIGHLIGHTS 2005 BBC TWO WINTER HIGHLIGHTS 2005 COPYRIGHT NOTICE The material contained in this Press Pack bulletin is protected by copyright which is owned by the BBC and may not be reproduced or used other than in respect to BBC programmes. The Picture in this Press Pack bulletin may not be used without proir permission from the BBC. © BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION 2004 THE ROTTERS’ CLUB Adapted in four parts by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais from Jonathan Coe’s novel,The Rotters’ Club is the story of three Birmingham families set against a backdrop of the class conflict and strike action – not to mention Blue Nun and prog-rock – that made up the socio-political landscape of Seventies Britain. The ensemble cast features new talent including Geoff Breton, Nicholas Shaw and Rasmus Hardiker, alongside established names Sarah Lancashire, Hugo Speer, Mark Williams and Kevin Doyle. Ben, Doug and Philip attend King William’s School, a middle-class institution that’s set to give them a start in life that their parents never had.Aspiring writer Ben lusts after “posh” Cicely Boyd, Doug flies the flag for socialism and prog-rock lover Philip is desperate to start his own band. Ben’s dad Colin is in middle management at Leyland’s Longbridge works, while Doug’s shop-steward father Bill is a dedicated trade union man. Philip’s bus driver dad Sam and housewife mum Barbara seem happy, but does Barbara want more from life? The Rotters’ Club is a tragi-comic blend of the personal and the political, taking in everything from strike action to the delights of first love.A tale not just of individuals but of an entire era, it is enriched by a real sense of life in the Seventies. Drama publicity 02 HOLOCAUST HOLOCAUST – A MUSIC AUSCHWITZ – THE NAZIS & THE “FINAL SOLUTION” MEMORIAL DAY EVENT MEMORIAL FILM FROM AUSCHWITZ In 2005, Holocaust Memorial Day To mark the 60th anniversary of the Sixty years on,Auschwitz still has a unique place in history.Within its walls the coincides with the 60th Anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, BBC biggest mass murder ever recorded occurred.Yet it is hard to grasp how and why the liberation of Auschwitz Two presents a landmark music film such a chilling place existed. concentration camp.To commemorate reflecting and remembering the human the anniversary,Westminster Hall will tragedy of the Holocaust.The film Now the full, untold story of Auschwitz can be revealed in a definitive BBC host the biggest ever assembly of features performances, recorded for documentary series to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp British-based survivors of the camps the first time on location in Auschwitz, next January.And for the first time ever on television, photo-real graphics rebuild and ghettos of Nazi Europe. from acclaimed international artists Auschwitz as it looked under the Nazis, in order to properly tell the true and including violinist Maxim Vengerov, accurate story of what actually happened. The event, organised by the Home pianist Emanuel Ax, soprano Isabel Office in conjunction with the BBC, Bayrakdarian, baritone Gerald Finley Written and produced by Bafta Award-winning producer Laurence Rees, using fresh will be attended by HM The Queen, and clarinettist David Krakauer. new research,Auschwitz – The Nazis & The “Final Solution” offers viewers a unique accompanied by the HRH Duke of perspective on a camp in which more than one million people were ruthlessly Edinburgh, and major political leaders. For many victims and survivors of the murdered. The broadcast sees the worldwide camps, music played a unique and premiere of Annelies, an original precious role as part of daily life. It The series follows the trail of evil from the very first discussions about “the Jewish oratorio based on the diaries of formed part of a complex relationship question”, to the creation of labour camps and the development of Auschwitz as a Anne Frank and performed by The between life and death, yet for many mechanised factory for mass murder. It interweaves new testimony from camp Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with was their salvation.The concentration survivors and members of the SS with archive footage and drama reconstructions Clare College Choir. Cantor Stephen camps are sadly synonymous with of some of the key decision-making moments. Leas performs the memorial prayer at many famous musicians, including the event. Jewish composers Hans Krasa, Pavel CR Haas and Viktor Ullmann and women’s CR orchestra director Alma Rosé, the niece of the composer Gustav Mahler. Film from Auschwitz, archive material and orchestral performances are combined with powerful stories from three camp survivors to form a moving and challenging musical sequence that takes the audience on a factual, emotional and musical journey. SD 04 MY LIFE AS A CHILD BLAME THE PARENTS SWEET SIXTEEN Television has tried various ways to From anti-social behaviour to youth crime and truancy, teenagers often make Directed by Ken Loach, Sweet Sixteen give an insight into a child’s view of the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with the blame placed firmly at the feet of the is set in the rundown Scottish town of world but this series takes on an parents. Blame The Parents follows the parents of five different families, all with Greenock and follows teenage scally entirely new approach.Avoiding troublesome teenagers. Liam (Martin Compston) as he interviewers and outside interference struggles to prepare for the release of as much as possible, My Life As A Faced with the fact that they can no longer keep their teens in line, the parents his ex-heroin addict mum from prison. Child gives cameras to children, aged have volunteered to join a government-run course designed to help them with from 5 to 11, allowing them to capture their parenting skills. Capturing the rows, tantrums and angry confrontations, these Desperate to find the money to build their own unique perspective on are parents at their wits’ end, struggling to cope.With the pressure piling on, the a proper family home, Liam muscles in the world. series follows their progress on the course, what they learn and how they fare as on his mum’s boyfriend’s drug they attempt to take back control at home. business. Liam and his pal Pinball Viewers discover how the world looks (William Ruane) set themselves up through a child’s eyes, and what really GM as dealers, displaying an matters to them.The kids set the entrepreneurial skill that has little agenda and call the shots, and their other outlet on Glasgow’s perspective makes the everyday unemployment-ridden estates. extraordinary as they take viewers through their days at home and In the shadow of the closed-down school, all filmed in their own time and shipbuilding yards, Liam works his way on their own terms. up through the ranks of the local underworld, where his astute business The series promises to be funny, sense ironically reflects the Thatcherite touching and revealing, and to ethos of self-help. Sweet Sixteen is a challenge adult preconceptions about BBC film. what’s important and meaningful to young minds. FRONT DESK KA 06 THE APPRENTICE Sir Alan Sugar fronts The Apprentice, the series that gives an exclusive insight into the competitive world of business. As one of Britain’s most recognised entrepreneurs, Sir Alan guides 14 of the country’s most ambitious candidates as they vie for his approval, and the knowledge that they can make it in the business world. The Apprentice sees the candidates face the most gruelling and intense interview of their lives.They then carry out weekly assignments to test out their business acumen and entrepreneurial skills with Sir Alan setting them a real business task. Sir Alan will fire one of the candidates in the weekly boardroom showdown, leaving the rest of the team to battle it out.The candidate who proves their worth will secure a six-figure salary and a year-long job with one of his companies. Entertainment publicity 08 THIS WORLD – COMING OF AGE Children across the world, from widely different backgrounds, celebrate their coming of age. Each child tells their own personal story, revealing the political, social and religious themes that divide people and the universal human themes that bring them together. The children’s stories are also a testament to the age-old struggle between traditional ways of life and the pressure to modernise.The programme travels to Israel for a bar mitzvah; Uganda for a circumcision ceremony; Canada for an Inuit boy’s coming of age; Russia for a skinhead gang member’s initiation; and Malaysia for a boy’s first reading of the Quran. Coming Of Age is a special programme that launches the new series of This World. PR TRIBE Explorer Bruce Parry embarks on a real-life Boy’s Own adventure as he spends a month living with each of the six remotest tribes in the world. From the poisonous and sometimes fatal rebirthing initiations practised by the Babongo people of Gabon, to the fierce fighting displays of the Suri in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley; from taking dinner with a cannibal in Papua New Guinea to having a sharpened bone put through his nose, Bruce shares lives and customs increasingly threatened and gives a voice to those the corporate, capitalist world is too swift to ignore. JW 10 GROWN UP GAPPERS THE RECLAIMERS PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE IN Eight people share a common fantasy There’s a gargoyle out there with your name on it.The trend for recycling salvaged TWO YEARS – to step off the treadmill of daily life, sinks, tiles, parquet flooring and gargoyles, or anything else that can be gleaned from pack their life into a rucksack and go about-to-be-demolished noteworthy buildings, has boomed.Architectural salvage In Pay Off Your Mortgage In Two Years, exploring the world as travellers, websites have seen a 1,500 per cent increase in visits in the past five years.

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